Then Thad doubled up like a closed hinge, and shook with boisterous laughter.
"Oh! what a circus that was, Hugh!" he cried.

"Why, I don't know what I'd have given just for a chance to watch those two chaps swimming around.

And, say, that big tub falling must have nearly scared Leon to death.

I wonder now, did it happen to hit either of them when it came tumbling down after emptying out all the iced water?
Oh! I'll laugh myself nearly sick every time I think of this dandy trap of yours." Of course, the interior of the Belgian hares' quarters was a sight to behold, after all that downpour; but anticipating this, the careful Hugh had placed his pets where they could not be injured by the flood.
"See here what they left behind them," remarked Hugh, picking up what turned out to be a stout gunny-sack.

"Well, I'm glad to find this, because it seems to prove that they meant to steal my hares, and not kill them." "Just about as bad in the long run!" declared Thad, scornfully.